Occurrence and Dissemination of Antimicrobial-Resistant Salmonella Isolated from Diarrheic Stool Samples of Human

Abstract

The current study was designed to isolate and identification of Salmonella from human stool using salmonellashigella agar, the diagnosis of Salmonella relied on cultural properties where the Salmonella colonies on S.S.
agar revealed pale with black center. Out of 72 samples were collected 59.7% were positive to Salmonella.
The antibiotic susceptibility test of all positive isolates for Salmonella performed by using disk diffusion
methodagainst numerous antibiotics, The result of this test presented that the Salmonella isolates were
highly resistant to Levofloxacin 43(100%), Amoxicillin/Clavulanate 40(93.0%), Streptomycin 22(51.2%),
Tetracycline 19(44.2%), Imipenem 19(44.2%) and Amikacin 18(41.9%). While Salmonella isolates were
moderately sensitive to Kanamycin 9(20.9%). The current study refers to Salmonella gastroenteritis
treatment can be use Kanamycinas first treatment option.